these things for men who has been defied. to say the press swoon over him. they will nitpick my guy out the wazoo. i m telling you 35 days out this cat is in good shape. whatever is he doing i think he should keep doing it. bill: okay. rasmussen has him pretty much tied if you have the margin of error put in. that s mind boggling. bill: the point is well taken. with the press rooting for the president and with the money that the president has on attack ads for romney still to be close but the problem is in places like ohio and falling behind and ba ba ba ba ba. everybody thinks i m crazy. down the line. rove, kirsten powers. leslie marshall, the whole bunch. i come out and show a little emotion.
you know, bill because she was wearing red. bill: i don t want to be cynical. if mitt romney doesn t take it to the president tonight, i think that the obama machine will win. got to take it to him? i don t agree with you there, bill and this is why. the lack of connectivity that mitt romney has with the american public especially the middle class in which the decide majoritied are if he needs to have that likability. if he goes after the president too strongly he will sacrifice that likability. up like you, bill, he cannot be passionate and emotional and likeable at the same time. bill: he has got to be likeable. do you want him to come out and juggle? bring a puppet out? hello, hello, i like mitt romney. you guys are both crazy. he has got to come out and take it to him. this country is in bad shape. he has got to get that across. he has to. if he doesn t doesn t, him and
you i have also spoken with some the president s advisors who admit privately they have some apprehension about the fact that this is the first time they have been on the same stage. they have looked at the tapes from the last 20 or 30 years. if you look at it almost every time in the first debate the challenger wins because they have got the incumbent s record to pick apart. they are apprehensive about that because they know there is a lot that mitt romney can can pick on, bill. bill: as far as the governor is concerned, cammeron have you spent a lot of time with him any inside baseball tonight? i have super inside. talking about the stack so shaky on top of a jack hammer that being joe biden. mitt romney and his sons were back stage playing jinga in the run up to the start of the debate. mr. romney took it very easy. he did meet with senior staffers very easy. calming distractions and trying to relax what is going
bill: back of the book segment tonight. big presidential debate in denver just minutes away. let s go out to colorado where carl cammeron and ed henry are standing by. ed, you cover the president every day what s the word on his demeanor tonight? bill, i spoke a short time ago. two different people have been with the president today in denver over the past few hours. they insist he is the calmest, coolest guy in the room. is he not showing any apprehension about getting on the stage tonight for the first time with mitt romney. i spoke to a third person who is with the president in nevada in do that debate prep three days of intensive john kerry playing mitt romney. other staffers in the room firing questions saying you failed at this. you failed at that this person told me the president was answering every question. wasn t getting angry, wasn t losing his temper or his cool. look, it s one thing to have people around you in your orbit throwing quote, unquote fast balls at you, a wh
too busy trying to save this country. if he does want to show emotion save it for the closing argument and look straight into the camera at the end and say listen, it is broken and i can fix it, damn it. bill: now we are getting some place. if he says it damn it, it s like rhett butler saying damn it. it s a clean move and it resonates at the end. bill: a lot of evangelicals don t want to hear that word you know that so maybe he says i was gonna say it but i won t out of respect for everyone. now, if he gets attacked, which i think he will on the 47% comment, all right? then i say the tapes on barack obama shield. you put that up as a shield. wait a minute, hold it. are you talking to me like taxy. remember taxi driver? are you talking to me? there is nobody else here. you must be talking to me. what about that? that kind of takes that whole issue off the table that divisiveness that the president is going to try to point out that mitt romney is a divisive guy and doesn t